A 1947 Volkswagen Beetle mb-code 2490458 View looking from St James's

View looking from St James's Park

West London

holds the cap of liberty aloft on a staff while Bull restrains the crowds

Portrait bust of the Duke of Cambridge

Entrance to the Winchester Almshouses on Richmond Hill

A 1947 Volkswagen Beetle mb-code 2490458 View looking from St James'sA 1947 Volkswagen Beetle. Ferdinand Porsche produced ancestral KdF wagen prototypes in 1935. Batches of pre production versions followed, before manufacture began in 1939, adapted for military use. Adolf Hitler advised that the Volkswagen People's Car be streamlined to 'look like a beetle'. Post war civilian production was under British military control until 1949, when it reverted to German charge. During the late 1960s the Beetle became a world car.